| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
ix, 422 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-406) and index. |
| Contents |
Spies -- Mad about iron -- The toolbag travellers -- The Cornishman's puffer -- They kept their heads -- Some Yankees in the works -- The railway men -- Cowcatchers and timber tracks -- Les rosbifs go to work -- A prophet without honour -- A blast of hot air -- Morse decoded -- The palace of wonders -- "A very handsome tail" -- The petroleum pioneers -- The steel revolution -- Of Scots and Samurai -- Horsepower -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- The terror of the torpedo -- The synthetic world. |
| Subject |
Industrial revolution.
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Industrialists.
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| ISBN |
9780802118998: $27.50 |
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0802118992: $27.50 |
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